Claude Code stormed onto the programming scene when Anthropic launched it in February of this year. It moved, what Andrej Karpathy has called "The Autonomy Slider" from around a three to a solid eight. What this means is that you can give Claude Code direction, it will come up with a plan to accomplish the desired outcome, and it will run for an extended period, taking multiple steps, evaluating it's own decision making, and course correcting along the way, until it has accomplished the goal. Wordfence uses Claude Code extensively in our organization. In fact, every team member has a Max subscription, which costs us a total of around $70,000 per year. This includes team members in dev, ops, QA, threat intelligence, incident response, customer service, finance, executive and our marketing department, including our film team. In fact, one of our film team members, who is not a developer, is playing around with developing project management software for the film industry using Claude Code. What we've found is that AI and Claude Code in particular are powerful accelerators and amplifiers of human talent. Kerry Boyte is Defiant Inc's CEO and I am CTO, and we are the company founders and owners. Our approach to this AI revolution, that is well underway, is give every team member wings. We have been working hard for over 2 years to turn every team member into an expert AI practitioner that gives our team, the software vendors that we work with, and the website owners that we…Read More
Pushing Boundaries With Claude Code
